Our Team

Healthforce Center's experienced management team and faculty are nationally recognized for its extensive knowledge of the health care environment, research landscape, and leadership training in both the public and private sectors. We have assembled a broad team of researchers and staff with a diversity of perspectives and experiences to provide the research, training, and programming solutions you need.

Healthforce Center's research faculty, representing both UCSF and partner organizations, brings extensive interdisciplinary knowledge from across a variety of fields including economics, sociology, public health, medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy. We bring decades of experience to our country’s most pressing health care concerns and focus our research on issues impacting health care professionals, now and in the future.

Health care organizations need effective leaders and rigorous, unbiased research to successfully navigate this ever-changing health care landscape. Located at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the leading university dedicated to advancing health worldwide, Healthforce Center is specifically equipped to transform health care leaders and provide essential research insights about the US health care system.

Leadership

Elizabeth Mertz, PhD
Associate Director of Research
Rebecca Hargreaves, MPP
Deputy Director

Affiliated Faculty

Katrina Kimport, PhD
Affiliated Faculty
Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW
Affiliated Faculty

Staff

Khadijat Alli
Research Analyst
Tim Bates
Senior Research Analyst
Lisel Blash, MPA
Research Analyst
Lela Chu
Research Analyst
Giovany Desir
Program Associate
Brianna Fennell
Program Associate
Margaret Fix, MPH
Research Analyst
Lauren Forsell, MPH
Program Manager
Marie Hubbard, MSW
Senior Program Manager
Przemyslaw (Matthew) Jura
Research Analyst
Aubri Kottek, MPH
Research Analyst and Program Manager
Sutep Laohavanich, MS
Senior Manager
Shuang Liang, MS
Research Analyst
Melissa Lucas
Marketing and Communications Manager
Xenia Mendez, MPH
Research Analyst
Jacqueline (Jackie) Miller
Senior Research Data Analyst
Kyoko Peterson, MPH
Research Assistant
Amy Quan, MPH
Research Analyst
Gustavo A. Sánchez
Administrative Officer II
Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH
Program Manager
Aria Yow, MA
Program Manager